Your daily media briefing - Wednesday 11 September
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Birmingham teacher Andrew Moffat, who spoke at the 2019 NSS Bradlaugh Lecture about teaching equality in primary schools, has been nominated for 'Hero of the Year' at the European Diversity Awards.
The crowdfunding website GoFundMe has removed a page launched by Shakeel Afsar, one of the leaders of the Birmingham protests against LGBT-inclusive education in schools.
A body representing the Jehovah's Witnesses in Australia has written to all elders of the group ordering them to destroy confidential records, including notes taken by elders investigating child sexual abuse, in an instruction that has enraged survivors of abuse inside the secretive Christian sect.
The proposed date for a general election has moved to accommodate a Jewish festival. Chris Sloggett asks whether the government has weighed up all competing considerations before reaching this decision.
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